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Shakespeare vs. Britney Spears The Results So Far Shakespeare vs. Britney Spears is an interactive activity designed to shed light on the questions: What is art? Which artists have produced the world's greatest art? The responses of everyone taking part in this activity are collated and then analysed to determine what criteria (from a preset list) people think are important in making something a great work of art, and who, on these criteria, they think have produced the greatest works of art. The tables below contain the results of this activity to date. If you haven't already done so, then we suggest you have a go at this activity before looking at the results (they'll make more sense that way!). The first table details the rankings of all our artists, based on the responses of the 93016 people who have taken part in this activity to date. The maximum an artist can score is 85 points, the minimum 17 points. The second table comprises a rank ordering of the aesthetic criteria themselves. The ranking is in terms of the perceived importance of each criterion for artistic merit. The maximum score is 5, the minimum is 1. The third table details the rankings of our artists based on the number of times they have been chosen as the desert island artist (i.e., the artist whose works people would like to take to a desert island with them). For a number of reasons, it is not possible to draw straightforward conclusions about the general popularity of an artist from this ranking (most importantly, because the choice of desert island artist is between only two artists, who may originally have been selected for reasons not to do with popularity). Nevertheless, it is interesting to compare the "TPM Great Art League" with the "Desert Island Artists" ranking. The Tables
If you wish to review what philosophers have said about the importance of the aesthetic criteria featured in this activity, click here. We suggest that you bookmark this page, so that you can check back at a later date to see how the results are progressing. |
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